Midland Van Lines to Global Tranz: How a 101-Complaint Carrier Became Someone Else's Problem

This is a developing story. We are reporting what public records and a credible industry source have told us. The connection between these two companies has not been confirmed by FMCSA, but the complaint pattern is consistent with what regulators call a 'chameleon carrier,' a company that shuts down under one name and reopens under another to escape its complaint history.

Midland Van Lines (DOT 3443886) is a Miami, Florida carrier with 12 trucks and 101 NCCDB complaints. Its complaints surged in 2025, with 56 filed in a single year after 15 in 2023 and 25 in 2024. As of 2026, complaint volume dropped sharply to 5.

Global Trans Van Lines (DOT 4485687) is a Shelby, North Carolina carrier with 3 trucks. It appeared in the FMCSA database recently and has already accumulated 20 NCCDB complaints and 8 BBB complaints in 2026 alone. Its authority status is Authorized.

Midland's complaint trajectory tells a familiar story. In 2023, the company had 15 NCCDB complaints. In 2024, that nearly doubled to 25. In 2025, it more than doubled again to 56. Then in 2026, it collapsed to 5.

A sudden drop in complaints at a carrier with a rising trajectory usually means one of three things: the company reformed its practices, the company stopped taking shipments, or the shipments moved to a different DOT number.

Global Trans Van Lines appeared during the period when Midland's complaints dropped. It registered with 3 trucks and immediately began generating complaints at a rate inconsistent with a legitimate startup carrier.

An industry source with knowledge of South Florida moving operations identified Global Trans Van Lines as a chameleon of Midland Van Lines. The source stated that Global Trans is currently under investigation by a DOT task force.

Trunk has not independently confirmed the task force investigation. We have confirmed, through FMCSA public records, that Midland's registered principal is Daniel Azuelos (Miami, FL) and Global Trans's registered principal is Nafisa Giyazova (Shelby, NC). Different names. Different states. Different addresses. This does not disprove the connection. Chameleon carriers routinely register new entities under different names and in different states precisely to avoid detection.

Midland operates from Miami. Global Trans is registered in Shelby, North Carolina, a small city of about 22,000 people roughly 50 miles west of Charlotte.

The geographic shift from Miami to a small North Carolina town is worth noting. South Florida is the epicenter of household goods moving fraud in the United States. Regulators and consumer advocates scrutinize new carrier registrations from the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Boca Raton area. Registering a successor company in a small Carolina town makes it less likely to attract immediate attention.

This geographic dispersal tactic has been documented in other chameleon carrier cases. The operation may still run from South Florida while the DOT registration sits in another state.

This story is not finished. We are tracking several data points:

Global Trans's complaint volume. Twenty NCCDB complaints in its first period of operation is a significant red flag for a 3-truck carrier. For comparison, a well-run carrier of that size typically generates zero to two complaints per year.

Midland's authority status. As of this writing, Midland's authority is still listed as Authorized. If Midland surrenders its authority while Global Trans continues to accumulate complaints, that would be consistent with a chameleon transition.

The reported task force investigation. If confirmed, it would indicate that federal regulators are already aware of the connection.

We will update this article as new information becomes available. For now, the data is what it is: one Miami carrier with 101 complaints that suddenly went quiet, and one North Carolina carrier that appeared at the same time and started generating complaints immediately.